It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.
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